Power outage history
Stark County Ohio
3.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
72nd most of 88 in Ohio 53% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Stark's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Stark, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 40,461 | 16% | 2.6 d | 43 h | 881k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 41,633 | 17% | 45 h | 29 h | 642k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 14,213 | 6% | 34 h | 37 h | 270k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 15,624 | 6% | 19 h | 20 h | 178k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 17,673 | 7% | 13 h | 16 h | 117k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 16,210 | 6% | 13 h | 21 h | 100k |
| Nov 16, 2018 | No storm report | 5,682 | 2% | 18 h | 17 h | 77k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 12,672 | 5% | 9.5 h | 9.8 h | 69k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,339 | 4% | 12 h | 19 h | 61k |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Tornadoes | 9,455 | 4% | 9.8 h | 17 h | 53k |
| May 15, 2015 | No storm report | 6,738 | 3% | 8.8 h | 5.5 h | 51k |
| Sep 21, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 9,065 | 4% | 8.8 h | 16 h | 44k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 8,945 | 4% | 7.8 h | 18 h | 39k |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 6,475 | 3% | 6.2 h | 10 h | 35k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 9,602 | 4% | 6.2 h | 7.5 h | 34k |
| Jun 29, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,828 | 2% | 6.5 h | 4.8 h | 30k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | Windstorm | 6,580 | 3% | 5.8 h | 14 h | 25k |
| Jan 12, 2020 | Windstorm | 4,163 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 23k |
| Jul 19, 2017 | No storm report | 5,141 | 2% | 4.5 h | 4.8 h | 23k |
| Jun 20, 2020 | No storm report | 7,654 | 3% | 4.5 h | 2.5 h | 23k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | No storm report | 6,616 | 3% | 5.5 h | 17 h | 22k |
| Dec 15, 2016 | No storm report | 4,164 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 21k |
| Sep 12, 2017 | No storm report | 4,140 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 20k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | No storm report | 4,510 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 18k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,948 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 18k |
| Jul 24, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 4,740 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 17k |
| Jun 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 12,535 | 5% | 3.0 h | 1.8 h | 17k |
| Aug 22, 2017 | No storm report | 3,330 | 1% | 5.0 h | – | 17k |
| Aug 23, 2023 | No storm report | 4,030 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 16k |
| Mar 29, 2020 | No storm report | 5,931 | 2% | 3.5 h | 4.8 h | 16k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Stark from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 67%
- No storm on record 21%
- Windstorm 12%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Stark
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Ohio territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Co | Investor Owned | 221 | 145 | 1.22 | 19.0 | 1.3M |
| Ohio Edison Co | Investor Owned | 244 | 131 | 1.51 | 16.0 | 961k |
| Carroll Electric Coop, Inc | OH | 1,033 | 561 | – | 13.9 | 126k |
| Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 326 | 275 | 2.19 | 17.2 | 15k |
| Village of Brewster | OH | 99 | 99 | 0.92 | – | 9.0k |
| Village of Beach City | OH | – | – | – | – | 6.4k |
| City of Orrville | Municipal | 149 | 46 | 1.40 | 11.0 | 6.3k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Carroll 8.6 h
- Columbiana 8.2 h
- Holmes 7.8 h
- Tuscarawas 7.7 h
- Portage 5.9 h
- Summit 4.0 h
- Wayne 4.0 h
- Mahoning 3.4 h
- Stark (this county) 3.1 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 251,263 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →